Homicks Fashionworld
Designing the digital identity and full e-commerce experience for a Yoruba-heritage fashion brand, from brand direction to checkout, built to convert first-time visitors into buyers.
- Role
- Brand & UI Designer
- Timeline
- 2023
- Platform
- Web (Desktop + Mobile)
- Year
- 2023
Screen recording of the live product
The Problem
Homicks Fashionworld sells fashion rooted in traditional Yoruba craftsmanship: hand-worked fabrics, cultural silhouettes, and designs that carry heritage in every stitch. The brand had a real product and a real audience. What it did not have was a digital presence that matched either.
The original website read as generic fashion retail. Nothing about the visual language, the copy, or the browsing experience told you this was a brand with a specific cultural identity and a point of view. A visitor landing on the homepage could have been on any small fashion site. That invisibility was costing the brand its strongest selling point: the story behind the clothes.
The brief was end-to-end. Design the brand identity for the digital experience, build the visual language that communicated cultural pride without becoming a costume, and design a shopping experience that moved visitors from discovery to checkout without friction. This was not a reskin. It was a ground-up rebuild of how the brand presented itself online.
My Role
I led the entire project as Brand and UI Designer, working directly with the Homicks founder. My scope covered brand direction for the digital experience, the visual design system, every page of the website from homepage to checkout, and the product photography art direction guidelines. I designed the full shopping journey (browsing, product detail, cart, and checkout) with a consistent visual language throughout. I also wrote the brand voice guidelines that shaped all copy on the site.
Team
Solo designer. Collaborated directly with the Homicks founder on brand direction and product photography decisions.
Outcomes
End-to-end
design ownership from brand direction to checkout
Brand identity, design system, all pages, all flows
7
key pages designed across the full shopping journey
Homepage, collection, product detail, size guide, cart, checkout, confirmation
2
device-specific experiences within one design system
Mobile optimized for discovery, desktop optimized for purchase
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cultural motifs used as UI decoration
Heritage expressed through photography and product, not interface ornamentation
What I Learned
Homicks Fashionworld taught me the most important lesson I know about e-commerce design: your job is not to design a beautiful website. Your job is to make someone want something and then make it easy for them to get it. Every design decision has to be evaluated against that sequence in that order. The biggest shift in this project was moving from a branding mindset to a conversion mindset. Early versions of the homepage were beautiful but passive. They communicated identity without creating desire. The version that worked did the opposite: it showed the product first and let the brand identity come through as a feeling rather than an announcement. The cross-device wishlist decision came late and almost did not make it into the project. When the data showed that most discovery was happening on mobile and most purchases on desktop, the right answer was obvious in retrospect, but it required stepping back from the design and asking a product question first. That pattern of asking the product question before the design question became a habit that carried forward into every project after this one.
Next Project
Web Design